Cast your eye down the page and you will see a post I did a few weeks ago where I ran into a lion. The photograph I posted is of him sitting in the bushes by the roadside.
That lion is now called "Shupi" which means "trouble". About a week after our adrenaline filled encounter we started getting reports of livestock missing in the forest and cattle coming home with scratches...that sort of thing. We immediately suspected that it was this young male as adult lions rarely injure livestock without killing it. We guessed it was a young inexperienced lion and he was our prime suspect.
In a more recent post about the call of the road I inset a photo of his tracks in the communal lands, so we have been on his trail for some time.
Well it all came down to one night at the end of January when we spend 9 hours calling him and finally managed to catch him. We put a collar on him and he is now as much a part of the Long Shields project as I am. Welcome Shupi!
We now, using the almost real time gps data that his collar sends, harass and chase him with vuvuzelas and fire-crackers wherever he is in an area he shouldn't be.....it has worked very well and as far as the marathon goes I am calling it "Cross training!"
Brent
That lion is now called "Shupi" which means "trouble". About a week after our adrenaline filled encounter we started getting reports of livestock missing in the forest and cattle coming home with scratches...that sort of thing. We immediately suspected that it was this young male as adult lions rarely injure livestock without killing it. We guessed it was a young inexperienced lion and he was our prime suspect.
In a more recent post about the call of the road I inset a photo of his tracks in the communal lands, so we have been on his trail for some time.
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| Shupi's tracks in the mud |
Well it all came down to one night at the end of January when we spend 9 hours calling him and finally managed to catch him. We put a collar on him and he is now as much a part of the Long Shields project as I am. Welcome Shupi!
We now, using the almost real time gps data that his collar sends, harass and chase him with vuvuzelas and fire-crackers wherever he is in an area he shouldn't be.....it has worked very well and as far as the marathon goes I am calling it "Cross training!"
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| A local man joins in the chase with a vuvuzela |
Brent
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